{"id":291399,"date":"2024-04-18T17:12:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T11:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=291399"},"modified":"2024-04-18T17:12:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T11:42:46","slug":"gaia-bh3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/gaia-bh3\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaia BH3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source<\/strong>\u2013 This post on Gaia BH3<\/strong> is based on the article “Astronomers spot a massive \u2018sleeping giant\u2019 black hole less than 2,000 light-years from Earth”<\/a> published in\u00a0\u201cCNN\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0on 16th April 2024.<\/p>\n

Why in the News?<\/h2>\n

Recently, Astronomers have discovered a massive black hole named Gaia BH3.<\/p>\n

About Gaia BH3<\/h2>\n
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Source: CNN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1. BH3 is a dormant black hole<\/span> formed from the collapse of an exploding star<\/span>. It has a mass 33 times greater than our sun.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. It is located only 2,000 light years away from Earth<\/span> in the Aquila constellation.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Astronomers discovered the black hole while combing through observations taken by the European Space Agency\u2019s Gaia space telescope<\/span> for an upcoming data release to the scientific community.<\/p>\n

4. A wobbling star orbits<\/span> Gaia BH3 every 11.6 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

5. The most massive black hole in our galaxy is Sagittarius A*<\/span> which is the supermassive black hole located at the center of the Milky Way.<\/p>\n

It has about 4 million times the mass of the sun,<\/span> but that is because it\u2019s a supermassive black hole, rather than a stellar black hole.<\/p>\n

About supermassive black hole and stellar black hole<\/h2>\n

a) Stellar-mass black holes originate from the gravitational collapse of a single star or the combination of two neutron stars. <\/span><\/p>\n

b) These black holes typically have masses that range from approximately three to fifty times that of sun. <\/span><\/p>\n

c) Supermassive black holes are immensely larger, with masses starting at around 50,000 times the mass of sun<\/span> and can reach up to millions or even billions of times greater.<\/p>\n

They are\u00a0invariably located at the centers of galaxies and present in nearly all galaxies.<\/span><\/p>\n

d) The formation of supermassive black holes remains a mystery to scientists, as they are too vast to have been formed from the collapse of individual stars.<\/p>\n

UPSC Syllabus: Science and technology (space)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source\u2013 This post on Gaia BH3 is based on the article “Astronomers spot a massive \u2018sleeping giant\u2019 black hole less than 2,000 light-years from Earth” published in\u00a0\u201cCNN\u201d\u00a0on 16th April 2024. Why in the News? Recently, Astronomers have discovered a massive black hole named Gaia BH3. About Gaia BH3 1. BH3 is a dormant black hole… Continue reading Gaia BH3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738],"tags":[11872,11292],"class_list":["post-291399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-cnn","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}